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CAA approves new English course

CAA approves new English course

Audra Gullquist, Assistant News Editor October 20, 2023

Eastern’s Council on Academic Affairs met Thursday for their weekly meeting to discuss and approve new courses. The Council approved English 3902, a second language acquisition and the teaching...

Marita Gronnvoll is the Council on Academic Affairs chair and a communication studies professor. The CAA met on Thursday at 2 p.m. in room 4440 of Booth Library.

CAA approves multiple new courses

Cam'ron Hardy, News Editor March 3, 2023

The Council in Academic Affairs met on Thursday to discuss revisions and approvals of new courses. They approved the revisions of Planning Health Program, PUBH 4250, which is a course designed to provide...

CAA approves ownership of documents

CAA approves ownership of documents

Cam'ron Hardy, News Editor February 23, 2023

The Council on Academic Affairs met Thursday to revise and approve new courses. The unanimous approval of student record was decided upon at the meeting as well. After documents are sent to Eastern,...

The Council of Academic Affairs voted in favor of revising the curriculum in the history department to be more inclusive to all students.

CAA approves revision for anti-racist comments

Madelyn Kidd, Editor-in-Chief February 17, 2023

The Council of Academic Affairs approved revisions to Eastern’s history programs to reflect the department’s anti-racist statement from August 2020 and to change the history currently taught to be...

The Council of Academic Affairs approved of a gaming history class where students can engage in diverse cultures, experiences, and ideas as they respond to historical events through the perspective of the actors who lived during those periods.

New role playing class to come to EIU the upcoming Fall semester

Cam'ron Hardy, News Editor February 10, 2023

The Council of Academic Affairs met Thursday at 2 p.m. Mary J. Booth Library. The unanimous approval of new course, Gaming the Past, Honors, HIS 1599G, took place at the meeting as well. The course will...

CAA votes on switching history class to journalism department

CAA votes on switching history class to journalism department

Cam'ron Hardy, News Editor February 3, 2023

The Council of Academic Affair met on Thursday to discuss multiple revisions and approval of multiple courses. The History of American Journalism is a new course for the journalism department and was...

CAA approves new role playing class

CAA approves new role playing class

Cam'ron Hardy, News Editor January 12, 2023

The Council of Academic Affairs met on unanimously approved multiple classes during their meeting on Thursday. The unanimous approval of HIS 1527G, Gaming the Past was approved. The class will be about...

Megan Cotner, instructor of public health and nutrition, and Mikki Sherwood, department chair of human services and community leadership present a new course proposal for a class called Interprofessional Education in Collaborative Health and Human Services to the Council of Acadmic Affairs Thursday afternoon in the Witters Conference Room.

CAA approves new CHHS course

Madelyn Kidd, News Editor April 14, 2022

The Council on Academic Affairs unanimously approved a new elective health and human sciences course on Thursday afternoon. CAA approved the new course HHS-3000, Interprofessional Education in Collaborative...

Chairperson of the Council of Academic Affairs, Richard Wilkinson, calls for a roll call vote for one of 50 proposals at Thursdays meeting in Booth Library Witters Conference Room.

CAA breaks personal record

Madelyn Kidd, News Editor March 3, 2022

The Council on Academic Affairs broke its record of how many proposals can be approved in one two-hour meeting with 50 proposals at Thursday’s meeting in Booth Library from the previous record of approximately...

Council of Academic Affairs member Kiran Padmaraju motions in favor of adding an item to the agenda at the Oct. 28 meeting. The council voted on a proposed departmental honors program for the Department of Human Services and Community Leadership with all present members approving.

CAA approves new English course

Madelyn Kidd, News Editor February 24, 2022

The Council of Academic Affairs approved unanimously for a new English course at Eastern on Thursday. CAA approved the new English course, ENG-2706G Latin American and Latinx Literatures, to begin in...

Council of Academic Affairs Chair Richard Wilkinson opens a discussion about Honors course HON 1191 at the Nov. 11 meeting in the Witter’s Conference Room. The Council unanimously in favor of revising Honors course, HON 1191.

CAA approves 3 new courses, 2 course revisions

Madelyn Kidd, News Editor February 17, 2022

The Council of Academic Affairs unanimously approved three new courses for the departments communication and disorders and sciences, chemistry and biochemistry and world languages and cultures. CAA...

Amy Rosenstein, department of special education, asks a question about the textbook rental meeting staff at the Sept. 30, 2021 CAA meeting.

CAA will not suspend bylaws to extend next year’s catalog deadline

Madelyn Kidd, News Editor February 10, 2022

The Council on Academic Affairs discussed and agreed to not suspend their bylaws and delay the 2022-23 catalog’s deadline, which would have allowed colleges to submit proposals after the deadline on...

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